Principal's Daily

Good morning. Thank you for praying for all of our sister schools closing this year.

Mass on Friday followed by Town Hall and please get your SK names to Cris by Thursday.

Full staff meeting on Wednesday in preparation for Catholic Schools Week.

Minimum Day on Friday as we prepare for our upcoming Catholic Schools Week.

Quotes of the Week from Kim Marshall’s synthesis of research last week:

“Time and energy are precious,
limited resources, and if we squander them on too many initiatives or on the wrong ones, we will fail.”
Mike Schmoker (see item #1)
“It’s not just effort, but strategy. Students need to know that if they’re stuck, they don’t need just effort. You don’t want them redoubling their efforts with the same ineffective strategies. You want them to know when to ask for help and when to use resources that are available.”
Carol Dweck (see item #2)
“Nobody has a growth mindset in everything all the time. Everyone is a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets. You could have a predominant growth mindset in an area but there can still be things that trigger you into a fixed mindset trait. Something really challenging and outside your comfort zone can trigger it, or, if you encounter someone who is much better than you at something you pride yourself on, you can think, ‘Oh, that person has ability, not me.’”
Carol Dweck (
ibid.)
“If students do not form a positive connection with their teacher, it is within their control to minimally learn core content or refuse to learn anything at all.”
Tanner LeBaron Wallace, Benjamin Kelcey, and Erik Ruzek in “What Can Student
Perception Surveys Tell Us About Teaching? Empirically Testing the Underlying
Structure of the Tripod Student Perception Survey” in
American EducationalResearch Journal, December 2016 (Vol. 53, #6, p. 1834-1868),
http://bit.ly/2i8DHp1 6. Lessons Plans by 8:00am and enjoy your day and week with the kids and each other. God Bless.